[Blindtlk] I think bookshare should consider pricing plans like cell phone providers have in place

[Jewel]

At the NFB national convention, a representative from Bookshare told
me and others that if you call them when you reach your limit, they
will make your account open for another 100 books, if you have a
student account. This is very helpful to me, since I do download a lot
of books that I may or may not read. For example, for a research paper
for English, I downloaded 20 books that seemed to be on the right
track for the paper. I have since narrowed that selection to 5 books
for variou sreasons (such as a book not having page numbers clearly
marked or the content is not actually on the topic I was seeking). So
I downloaded 15 books that I am not going to read, but that I wanted
to skim. I haven't hit the 1000 book limit yet, but if I did, it's
good that I can call them to allow for more books.

My two cents,
Jewel

On 10/15/11, Dana <dananolan at comcast.net> wrote:
> Wondering your opinions
> I went on vacation for example and I am not complaining in the least I am
> exstatic that there are so many new books up on bookshare so what I am
> sayign is that I sure do appreciate the service immensely and love all of
> the awesome books I get to read because of it.
> I understand completely there is no way  shape or form  that I can read more
> than probably 100 books a month as yes I do read about 2 or 3 books
> sometimes daily, but this is the thing.
> I have literally had to email myself lists of books that I want to come back
> to the site and eventually download once my ability to do this is given back
> to me.
> I do at this time get 300 downloads a month and again as I stated I know I
> can't read that many books, but the convenience of just being able to
> download books when I look at the new books added to the collection would
> save me a lot of time and I believe if bookshare instituted a pricing plan
> structure, for example that those who paid one yearly fee could get one
> number of downloads and those who paid a different higher amount for a
> yearly fee could be given ability to obtain more downloads.
> I do not want something for free I am willing to pay whatever would benefit
> bookshare in any way shape or form, I just wish there were an option to for
> example pay double the annual cost yearly to be given say 500 downloads
> monthly for those of us who choose to download more books. Or even say a
> structure like paying the normal 50 dollars yearly for 300 books monthly 100
> dollars for say 500 books monthly and I doubt anyone would need this but
> even say 200 dollars annually for people who wanted to download 1000 books
> monthly. This would earn bookshare more money and give those of us who
> wanted it more options.  Me personally I just like to keep them on my
> external hard drive and booksense and when one works 40 hours weekly full
> time anything to save me time is a good thing in my book (smile)
> I wonder if anyone can see what I am saying at all and to me anything that
> can give bookshare more money and give those of us who want it more
> convenience seems to me a good idea.
> Thanks for reading.
> Dana
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